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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180199 | Playback apparatus, playback method, program for playback method, and recording medium recorded with program for playback method thereon A playback apparatus which plays back video or music contents, includes: a playback unit playing back the video or music contents recorded on a recording medium; an output unit outputting the video or music contents played back in the playback unit; and a control un... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7750935 | Apparatus for setting a data stream band width and associated methodology A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method in which, during a recording operation, the maximum bit rate of a transport stream may be detected and along with the transport stream written into a storage medium. During a reproducing operation, the recorde... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7190392 | Telepresence system and active/passive mode display for use therein A telepresence server is for connection to a telecommunications network for providing access to a reality engine for a plurality of passive users. The reality engine can be controlled by an active user or a professional director through the network or by a local pro... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7155052 | Method for pattern inspection A method for inspecting a patterned surface employs reference data related to the pattern to provide a map for identifying regions which are expected to generate equivalent images. These regions are then compared in an image-to-image comparison to identify possible ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6965411 | Remote camera positioner Apparatus for remotely controlling the positioner of a camera head. At least one hydraulically-actuated positioner for rotating the camera head with respect to an axis is fixed to the camera head and to a camera support device, such as a camera boom. The positioner ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 5219315 | Water effects enhanced motion base simulator ride A simulator for water rides, that has a raft which is moved about such that it approximates the movement of a raft floating along a body of water. The simulator has a theater projection system constructed to display visual images onto a screen located ins... | 06/15/1993 |
| 4882233 | Selectively deposited electrodes onto a substrate A conductive substrate for the deposition of material thereon which comprises an insulating layer upon said substrate, and a pluralitry of aperatures in said insulating layer containing conductive material formed from said substrate forming a plurality of... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4371343 | Process and systems for the electronic generation of wide-angle moving images for training in the navigation of ships The invention relates to simulators, for example, simulators of a ship's bridge and the visual display of the scene as viewed from that bridge. Elementary images are juxtaposed, forming an image of a large angle where, without discontinuity, a moving obje... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4355328 | 360 Degree closed circuit television system A 360 degree closed circuit television system is disclosed which includes x background scene cameras, each camera of which scans a sixty degree segment of a background scene appearing on a 360 degree reflective display screen, and each camera of which pro... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4167019 | Video image generator A video image generator for producing a background image giving the visual appearance of an ocean on a raster type video screen. The image generating circuitry includes means for producing background patterns in successive scan frames of the raster to pro... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4129883 | Apparatus for generating at least one moving object across a video display screen where wraparound of the object is avoided In a video game where an object, such as a ship, moves across the screen and where wraparound exists when the object is displayed near the edge of the screen, binary logic architecture provides for use of only a single bit of data to determine which porti... | 12/12/1978 |
| 3950612 | Synthetic motion generator A synthetic motion generator system including a TV camera positioned to rrd a still life scene and a TV monitor connected to receive video signals from the TV camera and in which the vertical and/or horizontal sweep input to the camera is modulated by ap... | 04/13/1976 |
